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Former Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces Sami Anan, who has been publicly toying with running for president, announced Thursday that he would not take part in the race. On the same day Hamdeen Sabahy, the leader of the leftist Egyptian Popular Current confirmed his intention to run for presidency.

Egypt's former chief of staff General Sami Anan announced on Thursday that he would not run in the country's upcoming presidential elections.

In a press conference held Thursday morning, Anan said that his decision comes after "much thought" and was taken for the "sake of the country's unity," adding that Egypt was currently facing a great deal of "conspiracies."

Anan stressed that he cared for the unity of the army as well, a possible reference to the logistical problem of the military fielding two presidential hopefuls.

Critics of the military takeover here often say the generals’ promise of free elections is little more than a bad joke. Now a prominent former military man who cheered the takeover seems to agree: Ahmed Shafik, a former general and prime minister and the runner-up in the last presidential election, has called it a “farce.”

Mr. Shafik had not planned on making his opinion quite so public. But these days in Egypt, conversations are often not as private as they seem.

The Egyptian Engineers Assembly will boycott the syndicate elections scheduled in April, the organisation announced Monday.

In a statement, the assembly vowed “to legally defend all the gains of the syndicate,” and abstain from supporting any candidates during the upcoming elections.

A new law governing Egypt's upcoming presidential elections has been revised and was sent on Monday to interim President Adly Mansour for a final review.

The State Council, a judicial advisory body, had been given the 59-article law and asked to review a variety of proposed amendments after Mansour put the document up for public debate and began fielding suggestions.

Mansour had previously announced that the law would be issued by 18 Februrary.

El presidente interino de Egipto, Adli Mansur, ha encargado este martes al ingeniero Ibrahim Mehleb, hasta ahora ministro de Vivienda, la formación de un nuevo Gobierno, según ha anunciado un portavoz de la Presidencia egipcia.

A flicker of hope for women across Egypt may have been sparked on Friday, after the first female to head a political party in the country was elected.

Breaking through Egypt's political glass ceiling, Hala Shukrallah succeeded former Egyptian Vice President Mohammad ElBaradei to become the Constitution Party’s president.

And her win not only represents women, who are a minority in Egyptian politics; she is also a Coptic Christian, a community that makes up 10 around percent of the country’s population.

The judicial body tasked with supervising Egypt's upcoming presidential elections has announced that it will not meet as planned on 18 February, the day slated by interim authorities as the beginning of the polling process which will elect the country's second president in three years.

Hamdan Fahmy, secretary-general of the five-member Presidential Election Commission (PEC), said on Monday that the meeting will be delayed until a new law regulating the upcoming elections is issued by interim President Adly Mansour.

Un viejo aforismo en Oriente Medio sostiene que el grado de libertad de un país es inversamente proporcional a la presencia en sus calles y comercios de fotografías de su líder. Aplicada a Egipto, la omnipresente efigie del ministro de Defensa, augura que su esperada presidencia administrará el país con mano de hierro. De hecho, en la prensa ya abunda el calificativo de"nuevo faraón" para referirse al líder militar, sobre todo después de su ascensión el lunes de esta semana al rango de mariscal, el más alto en el escalafón del Ejército egipcio.